17.1 - Unvegetated shingle beaches

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Shingle beaches devoid of phanerogamic vegetation of the Palaearctic region. Codes of mediolittoral (intertidal) and supralittoral invertebrate communities listed under unit 11.28 can be combined with code 17.1 to record detailed habitats.

Bibliographie

Devillers P., Devillers-Terschuren J. & Vander Linden C., 2001. PHYSIS Palaearctic Habitat Classification Database. Updated to 10 December 2001. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles. (Source)

Augier, 1982; Lovric, 1993a; Viney, 1994: xv.